In her focus on ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations—and coming out ahead— Isaacs's novels present a generally optimistic view of life. She is also a sharp observer of contemporary mores and typical problems of an era.
For this reason the books hold up a provocative mirror to each of the decades that they're set in, as well as to concerns in some readers' lives.
1. Detective Steve Brady in Magic Hour is engaged to a genuinely nice woman and seems finally ready for a stable, normal life. Yet it is right at this time that he becomes obsessed with Bonnie Spencer, a murder suspect with a number of destabilizing traits in her background. Is this simply fate or serendipity at work?
Or are there other reasons for his attraction to Bonnie?
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